Machine for wringing clothes



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

S. A. BAILEY, OF NEW LONDON, CONNECTICUT.

MACHINE FOR WRINGING CLOTHES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 23,436, dated April 5, 1859; Ressued June 28, 1864, N0. 1,710.

l are beveled on their sides which are prel sented to the piece a, and the outer ends of the piece a, are also beveled to correspond T o all 'whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, S. A. BAILEY, of New London, in the county of New London and State of Connecticut, have invented certain with the bevel of the gear wheels, and t in new and useful Improvements in Machines said gear wheels as is shown in Fig. 4. 55

for IVringing Clothes; and I do hereby de- F, is a bar, which rests above the journal clare that the following is a full, clear, and boxes it, L, the ends of said bar, bearing upon exact description of the same, reference be blocks p'laced upon the boxes L, L.V A V ing had to the accompanying drawings and shaped piece is cut out of the ends of the to the letters of reference marked thereon. bar F, so that when the boxes 71, h bear 60 Figure 1 is an end view of the machine heavily against its ends they will yield with one end removed. Fig. 2 is a side View. slightly. Fig. 3 is a perspective of one half of the H, H, represent wedges which are placed wooden spring. F ig. 4 is a longitudinal secover the bar F, for the purpose of keeping it tion of one of the rollers. down, and for pressing the cylinders tighter 65 In the figures A represents the box which together. is rectangular-from the sides of said box, m m seen in dotted line is a guide for diare erected two perpendicular supports B, B, recting the clothes toward the center of the said supports being constructed with a reccylinders. tangular slot or groove through them in In wringing clothes with this machine they 70 which the ournal bearings 71, h, are allowed are passed between the rollers C, C, by turnto move up and down freely. ing the handle S. The cylinders being close C C represent two cylinders through which together and a sufficient pressure is obtained pass the shafts E, E, said shafts having their for small articles-a corresponding pressure bearings in the ournal boxes it, la. The cylis obtained for large ones, as it requires much 75 inder C, is seen in section in Fig. 4. force to bear in the spring slats c, c, c, when a, a, represents a cylindrical wooden articles of larger bulk pass through. I form spring' piece which passes over the shaft E. by this method a spring roller by means of This piece is divided transversely at its which I can obtain more pressing force at center as is shown and its two sections are less cost than I can by any other mode. 80 provided with a conical bore, the bases of I am aware that a patent has been grantthe cones being placed together. These ed to Mr. Slender for a machine which emconical holes extend almost to the outward ploys a roller which yields at its center: but ends of the piece ca but near their outer I disclaim all such parts of his invention as ends the holes are made square in order to may be found in my machine confining my 85 fit the shaft E. The two parts of the piece self to my device and arrangement. c, are slotted from their place of division Having thus fully described my invention toward their outer ends as from to az', in what I claim as new and desire to secure by Fig. 3. Letters Patent is- 40 c, c, c, are the slats formed by thus slotting The employment of the cylindrical wooden 90 those pieces. These holes are much thicker' spring piece a, a, which is divided in two at al, than they are at 6c, and the consequence parts at its center; each part being slotted is that when the piece a, is placed or slipped from the place of division as shown in the over the shaft E, it will act as a spring which drawing toward its outer end, the same beyields at its center but does not at its ends. ing covered by rubber cylinder substantially 95 (l, el, represent a cylindrical piece of india in the manner and for the purpose specified. rubber, which passes over the wooden spring S. A. BAILEY. piece a. lllitnesses:

D, D, represent gear wheels, which are se- AUG. BRANDEGEE, cured on the shaft E. These gear wheels RoBT. MCC. LORD.

[FIRST PRINTED 1911.] 

